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Our Cuban Cousins
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On the Dock

NOV 2003 - JAN 2004
Volume 9 Number

our cuban cousins

COVER CREDITS
Photograph by Nestor Hernández


COVER STORY
22 ¡Habani Si!
Discover the island of Cuba with our travel writer Kevin Turner, Esquire.


FEATURES
10 Raising our Girls to Become Confident, Competent Young Women

11 We Are in This World

15  Move Over Jesse Jackson

29 Jesse Powell

DEPARTMENTS 
4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE PUBLISHER’S POINT
5  We're Movin' On Up

READ AND WIN!

6 Celebrate the Art of Romare Bearden

PRAISING THE PAST
8 The Battle of Memphis

A STORY FROM THEOTHER SIDE
9 The Lights of Havana

RECIPES
23 Mojitos from Cuba and Chile Sambal from Ghana

BOOK REVIEW
12 Death's Favorite Child

PARENTING
13 Cuba's Success in Education

MONEY TALKS
14 The Customer Has All The Money: You Need a Plan to Reach Them

FOCUS:  Our Cuban Cousins     
16 Cuba Libre in Washington?

17 Will Lifting the Embargo Bring Democracy to Cuba?

18 Finding Arab Roots in Cuba

19 U.S. Cuban Arts Program Exhibits Children's Work

19  African-Cuban U.S. Timeline

20 Mini-Symposium on Cuba

21 Free Medicine and Medical  Education in Cuba

HEALTH
24 If It Ain't Broke . . . Don't Fix It

25 Stroke:  A Quiet Storm

26 That Black Men Might Live: My Fight Against Prostate Cancer

POETRY PIER
30  An Act of Faith

COMING UP
31  BZB Black Gift and Art Show and other special events

MAKING WAVES
32  Update on people and things we have covered.

 




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